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Schools, Colleges and Universities throughout New Zealand are taking an increasingly pro-active approach to the personal safety of their students and staff by providing or arranging onsite self defence courses.
Protect offer specifically designed seperate courses for students and staff to address the individual challenges they will face regarding personal safety.
The contents of these seminars are unique to Protect in New Zealand and provide participants with real, functional skills to assist in identifying and avoiding violent situations, de-escalating aggressive situations, physically defending against violent attacks if neccessary as well as dealing with the potential consequences and aftermath of real situations.
Courses can be delivered anywhere in New Zealand.
Some of the schools we have provided courses for are:
Howick College (Women's self defence program, Men's self defence program, Kickboxing for fitness), Macleans College (Women's self defence program), Tikipunga High School (Specialist self defence), Waimokoia School (Staff safety training program), RYLA (General self defence), Southside HomeSchool (General self defence)
Below is a list of some of the most Frequently Asked Questions regarding our self defence courses for schools, colleges and universities. For any other questions please contact us to discuss.
Q. What is covered in the course(s)?
A. A basic breakdown of our most popular courses for schools are as follows:
Self Defence/Personal Protection Course:
The 4 hour course (courses can be from 2 hours to a full day or run as a series) includes:
- Discussion around personal safety
- - Understanding the psychology of violence
- - The legal aspects to defending yourself and/or others
- - Awareness and Avoidance strategies
- - De-escalation and verbal diffusion strategies and tactics
- - Practical and highly effective physical defence strategies
- - Understanding the consequences of violence and the need to avoid where possible
- - Interactive drills, exercises and discussions throughout and attendees have the opportunity to ask any questions they have throughout the day.
- - We are teaching a serious subject but ensure that it is done in an enjoyable and fun way!
Staff Safety Training Course
There has been a concerning increase in recent years of assaults on school staff from students and parents of students. This course is designed to maximise staff safety while ensuring considerations are made in regards to the legal, moral and ethical consequences of actions taken and the protection of the school's/institutions's reputation and integrity.
The 4 hour course (courses can be from 2 hours to a full day) includes:
- Awareness or pre-cursors to violence
- Avoidence strategies
-Defusion and de-escalation strategies
- Control and restraint techniques
- Practical and highly effective physical defence strategies
- Concealed weapon awareness
- Protection strategies against possible negative consequences to the situation
- Aftermath management strategies
- The course is taught in an open, interactive forum with plenty of opportunity to practice skills and ask questions
This is the only course of its type in New Zealand and is a highly valuable asset to any faculty's training curriculum.
Q. Is the self defence course based on martial arts?
A. No, not at all. Contrary to popular belief, Martial Arts and Self Defence are generally two very separate animals. Protect is a reality based self defence ‘system’ which is based on real world issues and situations. Our only concern is for our attendees personal safety and ensuring they are prepared to recognise, avoid, diffuse, or (if necessary) physically defend themselves against dangerous situations.
Q. Won't teaching students how to defend themselves make them more inclined to get into fights?
A. On the contrary, Protect courses are unique in that we focus heavily on avoidance and defusion/de-escalation strategies teaching the students about the true consequences of violent behaviour and the absolute need to avoid it wherever possible. We teach physical defence strategies of course, but they are framed as a last resort, when all else fails and are taught from a defensive perspective not an offensive one. Our courses encourage students to think about their actions before jumping prematurely into a 'fight' or aggresive/dangerous situation which could carry long term consequences.
Q. Where are the courses held and what are the timeframes?
A. We will come to your school, college, campus or a venue that you have available to conduct the courses. We can work around any timeframes required within or outside of school hours. We can also do evening courses if that suits you best, just let us know what is required.
Q. How much space is required?
A. It depends on the number of attendees and which course we are conducting. For a self defence course for up to 40 people, a ‘normal size’ school hall or gymnasium (or even cafeteria) is fine. We are happy to assess the available space to ensure that it is sufficient prior to the course and make recommendations if it is not.
Q. What other equipment is required?
A. For the self defence courses, no special equipment is required.
Q. What is the minimum and maximum numbers of attendees?
A. There is no minimum number of attendees. Maximum numbers will depend on which course is booked, the available venue, and the number of facilitators available. We have taught school groups which range from a couple of students to over a hundred so we can generally make any requirement that you have work.
Q. Are there any age limits for attendees?
A. Minimum age depends on which courses we are running. For teenage/young adult courses, the minimum age is 14 years. For younger students we review the age brackets based on your requirements for course content. There is no maximum age.
Q. Do males and females train together for the self defence courses?
A. It is up to you and the requirements you have for the course content. We can train males and females at the same time. If there is a specific focus for the course though (eg rape/sexual assault prevention for women) then we can do female specific and male specific courses. Often teenage males and females are more suited to seperate training sessions as the types of situations and assaults they are likely to face generally differ and this is something that we are happy to advise on and discuss with you.
Q. Do attendees have to be fit to attend the self defence course?
A. No, not at all. Self defence training is a life skill not a fitness or martial arts class.
Q. Do you have a health and safety plan?
A. Yes. We start every course with a health and safety briefing. Protect course facilitators hold current first aid certificates.
Q. How much do the courses cost?
A. It depends on which course you are booking, the duration of the course, where it is being held and a few other factors so let us know what you require and we will let you know what the investment will be.
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